This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Silver Jubilee of a Revolutionary Glass Breakthrough
The piece marks 25 years since the Colburn process began wide sheet glass production in 1916 and traces glass history from Jamestown to Stiegel to modern laminated safety glass. It highlights Libbey Owens and Colburn’s patent battles, the evolution from crown glass to continuous sheet glass, and early advances in automotive windshields and safety laminates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Western
Union
Glassemaking
Colburn
America
Atlantic
New World
Jamestown
Virginia
John Smith
Heinrich Wilhelm von Stiegel
Baron
Philadelphia
Germany
Lancaster County
Elizabeth Huber
Stiegel
Manheim
Thurm Berg
Baron Stiegel
Pompeii
Rome
Edward I
England
Eleanor
Spain
Henry
Elizabeth
Duke of Northumberland
Charles II
Europe
Allowaystown
N. J
Irving W.colburn
Pennsylvania
Blackford
Colburn Machine Glass Company
Michael J. Owens
Owens
Edward D. Libbey
Toledo Glass Company
Libbey
Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company
Paris
Edouard Benedictus
Benedictus
United States